The integrated editor UXO is the result of ongoing research and development of the text-technology group at Bielefeld. Being a full featured XML-based editing system, it also allows to combine the structured annotated data with information imported from relational databases by integrating a JDBC interface. The mapping processes between different levels of annotation can be programmed either by ...

We have developed an algorithm for the automatic detection of prospective unexploded ordnance UXO anomalies in total-field or gradient magnetic data based on the concept of the structural index SI of a magnetic anomaly. Identifying magnetic anomalies having specific structural indices enables the direct detection of potential UXO targets. The total magnetic field produced by a dipolelike source...

In this chapter, we outline the statistical procedures that can be employed for the detection of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Phenomenological modeling is first developed to relate the collected data to a sensor’s feature parameters, which in turn allow for physics-based signal processing. Starting with the Bayesian framework, we introduce minimax and robust detection that do not require prior pr...

Vietnam is a country that found itself at the center of Indochina wars and was subjected to most intense aerial bombing in history. However, little research has been done on effect unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination household livelihoods rural Vietnam. In this paper, we investigate contaminating households. Livelihood choices are classified by cluster analysis techniques, measured district...

we have applied an automatic interpretation method of potential data called an-eul in unexploded ordnance (uxo) prospective which is indeed a combination of the analytic signal and the euler deconvolution approaches. the method can be applied for both magnetic and gravity data as well for gradient surveys based upon the concept of the structural index (si) of a potential anomaly which is relate...

Demining and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance are extremely tedious and dangerous tasks. The use of robots bypasses the hazards and potentially increases the efficiency of both tasks. A first crucial step towards robotic mine/UXO clearance is to locate all the targets. This requires a path planner that generates a path to pass a detector over all points of a mine/UXO field, i.e., a planner t...

We have used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to detect UXO and non-ordnance on the 40-acre site (lot 54) of Jefferson Proving Ground, Indiana. The UXO are buried within about 1 m deep in a clayey silt for which the soil water content ranged from moist near the surface to near saturation at about 1 m. We used a 16-bit radar to profile along previously established lines, and transects over artific...

An analysis is presented of sound measurements performed near two detonations unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the North Sea, at distances ranging from 1.5 to 12 km. The charge masses were 325 and 140 kg TNT equivalent. objective was improve accuracy model predictions area where UXO affect harbour porpoises Sea. For predictions, an explosion emission combined with a shallow-water propagation model....

A commercial finite-element engineering-analysis code was used to model pulsed-induction (time-domain) sensing of UXO for comparison with measurements made with the Geonics EM61-3D. Late-time decay constants are observed to be independent of shape and orientation in solid nonpermeable (aluminum) objects with the same volume, in agreement with theory, except for flattened objects on end with res...

Demining and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance are extremely tedious and dangerous tasks. The use of robots bypasses the hazards and potentially increases the efficiency of both tasks. A first crucial step towards robotic mine/UXO clearance is to locate all the targets. This requires a path planner that generates a path to pass a detector over all points of a mine/UXO field, i.e., a planner t...